Monitoring and evaluation systems work…only if they are used
In the last few years, demand for public program evaluations has increased in Latin America and the Caribbean. This has been accompanied by the design and implementation of reliable and timely...
View ArticleFailing successfully
By Belissa Rojas The race for accountability, transparency and clear results is creating incentives to report the positive: demonstrating that project outputs were delivered, and in the best case, that...
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A practical guide to evaluate forest conservation policies
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in its latest State of the World Forests estimates that the rate of deforestation remains “alarmingly high.” In some regions such...
View ArticleThe evaluation agenda in education moves ahead in Mexico
The First Workshop on Impact Evaluation in Education in Mexico just took place these past 7th, 8th and 9th of May in Mexico City. This workshop was a response to the National Institute for the...
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One Laptop per Child revisited
This is joint post with Julian Cristiá, Ana Santiago and Eugenio Severín; members of the IDB team that developed the OLPC evaluation trial in Peru. Last March we published a post (also here) with the...
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3 ideas to improve education quality
On February 2013 the 3rd article of the Mexican constitution was reformed to establish that the State must guarantee education quality. The reform also established that entry into the teaching...
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Water by lottery draw?
*By German Sturzenegger y Gastón Gertner Follow @gersturze Follow @GastonGertner How random selection of beneficiaries can promote transparency A few months ago, together with a team of IDB Specialists...
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Credit or no credit? Is that really the question?
By Mario González Flores* & Leonardo Corral** Is access to credit enough to improve welfare indicators at the firm or farm level? In recent years, a great deal of hope to promote development has...
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Community Engagement for Citizen Security in Jamaica
By Cristina Mariel Fiat A citizen security project in Jamaica shows that community buy-in is vital to the success of such interventions as it helps ensure that services needed are delivered to those...
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